The Duke Consortia for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Development (CHAVD) annual retreat was held last week from Oct 19-22, with over 150 people attending. The four day retreat brought together some of the brightest minds in HIV vaccine development to share their work with collaborating peers and investigators. Presentations and discussions ranged from immunogen design to inducing broad neutralizing antibodies for vaccine development.
“Plans were made with others in the field to continue to move the HIV vaccine work forward as quickly as possible. Much progress was reported at the meeting with movement of clinical products into human trials.” – Dr. Bart Haynes
Additional congratulations are due to the winners of the Duke CHAVD lightning round presentations where researchers had only 5 minutes to present a years’ worth of work. Winners were selected by an esteemed group of judges from various Institutions. The winners are:
Derek Cain - Duke University
Rory Henderson - Duke University
Charlie Mu - Duke University
Olivia Swanson - Duke University
Ming Tian - University of Pennyslyvania
Kartik Manne - Duke University
RJ Edwards - Duke University
Kathy Wormald - Duke University
Joel Finney - Duke University
Amy Caparoni - Duke University